Extraterrestrial Life: How Similar Would It Be to Earth's Wildlife?

[Shalashaska]

P-N is also known to form rings and chains I'm pretty sure.

Absolutely, you get silanes and arsenides for one.

 

[baywax]

I do not see a problem with abiogenisis at all and feel panspermia is unlikely unless it "rained" down continuously for thousands of years. Given a sufficiently complex chemical mixture, time, and energy, "complexification" emerges naturally. That's what I believe and is proposed by Stuart Kauffman and John Casti in the books "At Home in the Universe" and "Complexification". Two other, "Signs of Life" and my all-time-favorite, "Self-Organization in Biological Systems" convince me that life is inevitable. I believe anyone that reads those four books would find final comfort in the matter of how life may have arose on this planet starting from simple chemicals. That's what happen to me. :)

I'll keep those authors in mind. Thanks.

I had no idea proteins were hydrophobic.

 

[baywax]

Here's a new hybrid species right on our planet...

The Polar/Griz Bear...

ULUKHAKTOK, N.W.T. - Researchers in the Northwest Territories say they may have found the first recorded case of a second-generation hybrid polar-grizzly bear in the wild, but an expert says it's not clear what the significance may be.

Government officials in the Northwest Territories said a hunter, David Kuptana, shot an unusual-looking bear during a hunting trip April 8 near Banks Island, in the Inuvik region.

He provided federal scientists with samples to see what type of bear it was.

Officials with the territorial government said those tests showed the dead bear was a hybrid — the offspring of a female hybrid polar-grizzly mix who had mated with a male grizzly.

Scientists confirmed this by comparing the dead bear's DNA with that of local polar bear and grizzly populations, and that of a male polar-grizzly hybrid, which was shot on Banks Island in 2006.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100501/science/science_hybrid_bear_shot

 

[Shalashaska]

Here's a new hybrid species right on our planet...

The Polar/Griz Bear...



http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100501/science/science_hybrid_bear_shot

Wow. That... is... wow.

 

[zomgwtf]

Wow. That... is... wow.

An ugly bear?

Yes I agree.

 

[Shalashaska]

An ugly bear?

Yes I agree.

A REALLY ugly bear! Yech, I've seen prettier chimeric mice.

 

[baywax]

A REALLY ugly bear! Yech, I've seen prettier chimeric mice.

Yes but, this is a test for anyone wishing to travel to other planets where the species may appear... um... not as you might think they should. Try to keep a poker face or even smile.... You don't know what reaction a grimace might provoke...

 

[DaveC426913]

You don't know what reaction a grimace might provoke...

If you see a Kzin smiling, you'd better be a fast runner.

A Kzin smiles, not out of amusement, but to bare its fangs.

 

[baywax]

If you see a Kzin smiling, you'd better be a fast runner.

A Kzin smiles, not out of amusement, but to bare its fangs.

So, its not a Kzin cousin?